Archive for April, 2009
Marts rise as recession fears ease
Bargain hunters moved in yesterday Thursday Apr 29 to push Asia’s stock markets up following two days of heavy selling that had been brought about by fears over the [...]
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Alcoa narrows Vietnam focus to Gia Nghia project
US aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. (AA) has opted not to pursue a joint venture alumina refinery in Vietnam, but continues to work on a separate bauxite and alumina project in [...]
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Philex reports mineral shipment for April
Philex Mining Corp., the country’s largest miner, on Tuesday disclosed that it has sold about P644 million in precious minerals for the month. Philex told the [...]
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Petronet LNG to buy stakes in gas fields abroad
Petronet LNG, which is the country’s biggest natural gas importer, plans to go upstream through acquisition of stakes in gas fields in Papua New Guinea and Australia, [...]
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PNOC unit spent P41M for oil exploration in 2008
PNOC Exploration Corp (PNOC-EC), a subsidiary of government-owned Philippine National Oil Co (PNOC) spent P40.662 million in 2008 for exploration and development, almost [...]
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Singapore court rules against Deutsche on coal asset sale
Singapore’s highest court has ruled that Deutsche Bank may have to pay unspecified damages to an investment firm as it did not get the best price for Indonesian assets [...]
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Indonesia to announce oil & gas block winners next week
Indonesia will next week announce the winners of the second round of oil and gas development contract offers held last year, the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources [...]
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PNOC-EC profit surged 73pctin ’08
Listed firm Philippine National Oil Co.-Exploration Corp said Tuesday its net income surged 73% to P3.05 billion in 2008 due mainly to an increase in revenues from its coal [...]
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Taiwan to be given observer status on WHO body
Taiwan said it was to be granted observer status on the World Health Organization’s supreme governing body, in a further sign of the island’s rapidly warming ties [...]
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Swine-flu spreads to Asia Pacific as Malaysia seeks travel ban
Swine flu was confirmed in New Zealand and suspected cases were found in at least four nations in the Asia-Pacific region, where some governments are calling for trade and [...]
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Climate ‘shielding Indonesia from swine flu’
Indonesia’s health minister says the reason the country has been spared from any confirmed swine flu infections is largely because of its climate. Dr Siti Fadilah [...]
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S Korea sees medical tourism boom under new law
Hospitals will be allowed directly to seek foreign patients from May as part of South Korea’s efforts to become Asia’s new medical tourism hub, officials said [...]
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First suspected swine flu case found in Thailand
A 42-year-old Thai woman returning from Mexico is suspected to have infected with swine influenza and being quarantined at the Chulalongkorn Hospital as the first suspected [...]
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Governments around world test for flu, hope they don’t find it
Governments around the world tested patients for the new H1N1 swine flu virus on Wednesday, hoping not to find it and dreading its spread. The World Health Organization doled [...]
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World battles swine flu as death toll rises
Governments and health officials around the world continued to take steps Tuesday against the outbreak of swine flu that has killed scores of people in Mexico and spread to [...]
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